Thank you all for a fabulous celebration BLOG HOP!! We had a wonderful time and the hop was so much fun!! We will announce the WINNERS on WEDNESDAY with our new challenge!

Welcome to the last stop on the Crafty Creation Birthday Celebration Bloghop! If you have arrived here from Magda's Blog you have finished the hop to us. If you have arrived here via another way and would like to take the whole hop in please start at Jaime's Blog. Make sure to stop at all the blogs along the way for some wonderful prize opportunities. If you ever lose your way come back here and follow the list . . .

Our Theme this week for those whom would like to play along is Celebration! Help us celebrate by joining us in this weeks challenge. Make sure if you join us in the challenge, you link your creation with mister linkie below the DT samples, for a chance to win this great prize. .

If you are only able to join us in the hop this week that is fine. We have these wonderful prizes up for grabs for anyone who would like a chance to win. We ask that if you have a blog to link back to us, to help spread the word for our Birthday Celebration. Feel free to take the badge at the side or top of this post.

Deena is giving this away ...Don't forget BLOG HOPPERS to leave us a LINK here!!The blog hop link will close on Friday at midnight central time. Happy hopping!!

We would like to take this time toTHANKour wonderful followers and wonderful sponsors. You all have inspired us in so many ways and we wouldn't be here a year later if it wasn't for all of you.To all those who sponsor us, we are so grateful for the privilege to use and showcase your designs/ products in our own crafty ways. We thank you!

Have a look at these fabulous sponsors that you will come across at some of our DT's blogs as you hop!

I would also like to thank all of my fellow DT members both past and present, you all amaze me weekly and offer such wonderful support! It is greatly appreciated!We look forward to another fabulous year of Crafty Creations Challenges with all of you!Now without further ado the wonderful creations for this celebration. .

20 January 2010

Result:62 . . . and the winner is Minxy. Please contact johnandjaime@clearwire.net and I will forward your info. Thanks all for playing last week beautiful entries! Remember to scroll down for this week's challenge.

13 January 2010

Before we get to today's challenge we want to tell you about our upcoming 1 year anniversary!! We are so excited that we are coming up to our 52nd challenge!! Mark your calendars for January 27th because we're having a BLOG HOP and we want you all to join us in our celebration!! Not only will we be having our 52nd challenge up for you, we will also be hosting a BLOG HOP with a stop to each of our fabulous designers' blogs, bringing you back here for the big finale and some awesome prizes to be won! We hope to see you here!!

Now its time for a new challenge

'TEXTURES'

is the theme for this week and we are all looking forward to seeing what you create.

We would like to see at least three different textures in your project.

I (Claire - Hope Jacare) am sponsoring this weeks challenge and the random winner can pick any three images from my shop - Hope Jacare at Shophandmade

WoW! You all amazed us with your sparkly New Years Creations!! Thank you to all who participated in our last challenge! The winner of the fabulous prize from A Creative Need will be anounced shortly. We are so happy to announce that Rose and Magda have joined us on our Design Team. They are sure to stun and amaze you with their talent. Welcome, Ladies!

This week we are being sponsored by Busy Beauties Boutique. Carolyn Bounds, the owner of the shop was kind enough to supply the DT with some of her amazing images to play with for this challenge. There will be a Busy Beauties release tomorrow starting with a blog hop!! Be sure to stop by Carolyn's shop and check out all of the images she has for sale!! Thank you so much for sponsoring us this week!! The lucky winner will get to choose three BB images!!

The challenge we have for you this week is Black and White with a Splash of Color. Please only use black, white and one other color on your creations. You may use other colors to color images though! We can't wait to see what you will create!! Here are some projects created by the DT to give you a little inspiration! Have a wonderful day!!

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Rules and Information

1. Challenges will be posted bi-weekly on Wednesday.2. Any craft is accepted. Limit two (2) entries per person.3. Must be a new creation-no back linking, please.4. Entry must have a direct link to post and link back to our blog.5. Prize winners will be picked on merit, and will have one week to claim their prize. Email Barbara at bbruder@fuse.net

Please make sure to use CCC Winner in the subject line.6. Top 3 will be selected by DT Hostess.7. Current challenge ends 24 hours prior to new challenge being posted.8. Have fun!

Please Note: The DT tries very hard to comment on each submission but sometimes things happen and life gets in the way. We may not always be able to comment on every entry, but we do try.